Tony Griffin: Learning to play the game of life

Former Clare hurler Tony Griffin will take part in a panel discussion next Saturday during the GAA’s second national Health & Wellbeing Conference in Croke Park. In 2011, Tony and Karl Swan set up the Soar Foundation, with its central belief that within all young people is greatness.

Q: Jim Stynes unleashed your passion for creating wellness programmes? 

A: Jim’s documentary ‘Every Heart Beats True’ kind of hit me like a sledgehammer in the chest and myself and Karl decided to go to Melbourne and find out about the work Jim had pioneered with young people through GAA. Jim wasn’t far from passing away. We started with Reach, his foundation and studied what they did.